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Originally posted by bas Also I don't know if there's a sect of Hinduism that eats beef

Hindus are kind of funny in this regard... as stated earlier, few hindus eat beef but there is no hard fast rule stating that they cannot. Some do, some don't, many don't eat any meat. The deal with the cow was really born from practicallity rather then religion... the cow was more valuable to early Indians as a source of dairy and beast of burdon rather then meat so slaughtering a cow for meat was a poor allocation of resources. I'm pretty certain there is nothing in the Vedas regarding cows. The practices of hinduism can vary wildly from one sect to another. Janists for instance won't eat any meat, kill any animal/insect/bacteria, and pay little attention to the cast system whereas most hindu sects have a strong belief in the cast system and care less about non-human animals.

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Originally posted by RickyM you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down

Fish is already considered Halal in Islamic religion, Beef and Chicken has to be slaughtered in a certain way to become Halal. Pork is completely forbidden.

Just got back from 2 weeks in Pakistan and made myself a bacon roll. Too good.

Check out references to saints and whatnot in reference to the original question.

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Hahaha when my parents lived in The Netherlands in the 70's they remember, these Moroccans taking some fucking cow up into some shoe box 16th floor flat (apartment) and slashing it's throat in a tiny kitchen doing the old Halal ritual. They thought someone was being murdered.

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Originally posted by Moral Hazard FYI, muslims can eat beef... it needs to be halah (sp?) which is the muslim equivalent to Kosher. You're thinking of Hindus... who can eat beef but generally do not as cows are sacred beings.

halal It's meant to be a good way of doing meat too, with some of the tastiest kinds because of how it's culled/stored but I've never had the chance to try any.

In my experience, spanish religion is catholicism mainly, and while many islands/areas have their specialties depending on the local fish/farming lands, It never goes too different.

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Originally posted by Frenchie You should just have one thread relating to your culinary class. http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/...on?OpenDocument http://www.answers.com/topic/religion-and-food I dunno exactly what is you're looking for.

thanks for those links Frenchie.. their very helpfull

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Originally posted by Bidor thanks for the help guys, im looking for what spanish people can/cant eat because of their religion, for example moslims cant eat beef.... and if they have special days/parties relating to spanish dishes/food..

well almost all the population is catholic but only the most religious don't eat meat during the eastern fridays. I'm spanish and I eat whatever I want and whenever I want, like almost all the people. nowadays catholicism in Spain is not as important as it was in the past!

about special days relating to food, we should look in each region. for example in mine it's typical to eat "canelones" (a pasta rollo with meat inside, and hot cheese around) on 25th december.

and generally in the restaurants they serve paella each thursday. just a note, paella is original from Valencia and there are many kinds of paella, with / without seafood, with /without meat, yellow paella, black paella, vegeterian paella. . .

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